Section 100 The Beginning of Competition
86_86638The temptation of Asia's top striker is very beautiful, but in the team, Gao Shunyao can't become the top so quickly. At the very least, when the team was assigned tasks for the new season, the coach told him that he needed to start the season as a substitute.
As an international player, Sota Hirayama will still be the main force of this team. However, although he started the new season as a substitute, Gao Shunyao still heard something interesting from the coach's words.
'You haven't worked well with your team-mates at the moment, so in the early stages of the league you might not even rotate a lot, mainly as a substitute. You're very fast, you've got a lot of weight, so you've got a good impact, and I'm going to put you on when we can't open the game and let you try to score. On the other hand, if we are under siege, you may also be on the pitch and involved in the defense. My substitution arrangement for you is mainly to appear after 65 minutes, how to distribute the body, how to read the game, how to practice the tactics, you think about these things yourself. β
Before the start of the season, when he was assigned a task, coach Cheng Fuhao also told him directly what he would do in the new season. The identity of the substitute and the time on the field, the coach hoped to make sense from the beginning, so as not to make Gao Shunyao unhappy.
As a coach, there is nothing wrong with the tactics arranged by Cheng Fuhao, but after Gao Shunyao listened to the way he arranged it, he found a problem: in his impression, such a rigid and dogmatic substitution method has been complained about many times by Li Ze. The 65-minute fixed substitution is considered by Li Ze to be a substitution method that is only needed in Pro Evolution Football, which is definitely not a normal behavior, and this arrangement also makes Gao Shunyao quite puzzled.
And after learning some about the situation, Gao Shunyao also understood why he arranged it this way.
"The main striker in our team, Shota Hirayama, didn't play well for half a year last year. It is said that because he has not played for a long time, his body has slipped a little hard, and if he doesn't replace you in the 65th minute, save some body for him, and let him play a little bit, maybe he will be injured or his body will be out of strength. β
Regarding Gao Shunyao's doubts, someone gave him the answer: Mori Shige, who often trains together, has solved the mystery in one sentence. The reason why Gao Shunyao was arranged as a substitute was because the coach was worried that Hirayama would not be able to play the whole game.
Replacing Gao Shunyao is not because the coach is willing, but because there is no way. This situation made Gao Shunyao smile a little wryly. I didn't expect the coach to arrange for him, and the reason was so simple. Hirayama Xiangtai actually fell so badly, which made Gao Shunyao quite embarrassed. After returning to his residence, Gao Shunyao also told Li Ze about this matter. Different from Gao Shunyao's wry smile, after listening to his narration, Li Ze immediately came to his senses.
"You find out no, this is your great opportunity."
For this arrangement, Li Ze obviously saw more than Gao Shunyao. He found that in the new season, in addition to being a substitute and trying to be a high point in set-piece attack, Gao Shunyao also needs to participate in the defense of set-piece defense.
In his opinion, whether to work hard to defend is an important step for Gao Shunyao to win the favor of the team.
Whether or not Gao Shunyao participates in air defense is really a very important matter for Tokyo. There is no other reason, because the height of the Tokyo team is a topic that makes people want to cry when they talk about it.
Actually, this is not a problem for Tokyo, the process of Japanese football has always been ups and downs, and in this process of ups and downs, the change of defenders has always been a trough. Japan's lack of good enough defenders has never been news. The defenders are not tall enough to defend the ball, so they naturally need the help of the players on the forward line, and one of the tasks of Gao Shunyao in the new team is to participate in the defensive headers.
In this team, Yayuki Konno is only tall, Mato Morishige is only tall, Yuhei Tokunaga is tall, and Yuto Nagatomo is only - that is to say, none of the defenders of this team can reach it!
The really tall players in this team are the double backs of this team, the height of Yohei Kajiyama and the height of Hideto Takahashi, which is okay.
Unfortunately, the team's midfielders can't always pile up in the box to grab the ball, after all, if there are opportunities such as corner kicks, they still have to think about how to counterattack and block the opponent's long-range shot from the edge of the penalty area. The different division of tasks has resulted in the fact that the Tokyo FC does not have an advantage in air defense. In the face of the opponent's corner kick opportunities, they have always adopted the approach of interference-oriented, supplemented by goalkeepers, as for the matter of grabbing the landing point, they are not sensitive.
In fact, this is also the consistent approach of many Japanese teams: although the height of these defenders in Tokyo is not good, but the strength is good, but the strength of other teams is not the same as the height, and if they encounter trouble, it will be worse than Tokyo.
This kind of play is actually not much of a problem as a general defensive strategy. But when you come across foreign help, it's a little different. The Japanese midfielders and wing-backs are excellent, but the forwards and defenders are weak, and they like to bring in foreign players from places like Brazil and South Korea to supplement their squad. And against those Brazilian defenders, it's hard to just interfere. Especially at some important moments when it is necessary to engage in hand-to-hand combat, it is extremely important to have air defense capabilities.
And Gao Shunyao is one of their choices.
'You're in the team and what you need to show now is that you can play a lot. And if you just compare the technology, if you want to catch up with Hirayama Sota, then I'm afraid it will be very difficult. His skills are very good, and the level of people in Europe is not something you can catch up with in a short period of time. But in some other areas, you can try to catch up. The reason why Hirayama Sota came back from Europe was because he was not used to living there in Europe, and it can also be known from this that this is a person who hates hardship. And in football, being involved in defense as a striker is the hardest thing, I guess he doesn't like it very much, and what he doesn't like is your chance. β
Li Ze's construction of Gao Shunyao, of course, Gao Shunyao will not object. Especially for the character of Xiangta Hirayama, Li Ze only analyzed, but Gao Shunyao saw it with his own eyes.
After Gao Shunyao entered the team, Hirayama Xiangtai also had some contact. And soon Gao Shunyao found out that his problem was more severe than he imagined. This player is not very active in training, but he is very keen on off-field activities. In the team, in addition to the title of monster, one of Hirayama Sota's most famous nicknames is the female high school collector, he doesn't train seriously in the team, and he can't keep up with the two balls in a season, but he is very energetic off the field.
If a person has nothing to talk about with his teammates and a lot of topics with high school girls, then there should be hope of taking away his main position.
Gao Shunyao is also more confident in his future.
Positioning, defensive drills, team integration...... Gao Shunyao is conducting a variety of training at the same time. His training task is quite light, but after a person has a goal, even training is full of enthusiasm.
Moreover, there is actually a lot of good news that the coach gave him. Although he can only be used as a substitute in the league for the time being, it is different in another field.
This is not a friendly β as a professional team, the Tokyo FC League reopened in March. Until then, of course, they have their own friendly schedules. But what is a little frustrating is that even in the friendly match, Gao Shunyao was not arranged as the main starter.
"Last year, we used Shingo Akamine as the team's main starter in the second half of the year, so if Hirayama wants to be a starter in the new season, he also needs some games to help him recover. In this year's friendly match, he is mainly needed as an adjustment period. β
When arranging a friendly match, Cheng Fuhao specially explained the purpose of his arrangement to Gao Shunyao when no one was around. It is indisputable that Sota Hirayama's current priority with the coach is still higher than that of Ko Shunyao.
And Gao Shunyao also understands that a friendly match for a team like Tokyo is also a money-making process. Although the strength of the Tokyo team is average, because they are in a big city, there are always some particularly tough opponents at times: according to the team's team-mate SΓΉ Gao Shunyao, they also played against Real Madrid back then, and Beckham's first free kick after moving to Real Madrid was scored in a friendly match against Tokyo FC. In the friendly matches in Tokyo, there are many strong teams as opponents, and they are unlikely to give opportunities to young people like Gao Shunyao.
Cheng Fuhao is a novice coach after all, even if it is a friendly match, he doesn't have the courage to open his hands and feet to have a good time.
In fact, not only Gao Shunyao, Shuichi Gonda, Mato Morishige, Tatsuya Suzuki, and Tanabe Kusato and several other young people are also difficult to have the opportunity to play in friendly matches. In comparison, Gao Shunyao can at least rely on the problem of Hirayama Xiangtai's poor play, and they have some opportunities to play, and they can't even guarantee their playing time.
The strength of the young people in the team is actually not bad, and now they are in the period of generational change, and they are all fresh blood carefully prepared by the team, and they can fully adapt to the game. However, because Cheng Fuhao wanted to be more secure, they didn't have much of a chance.
In this regard, even Cheng Fuhao was a little embarrassed, and he also made a guarantee when facing young players.
"You won't always be without a chance in the new season. Actually, I've figured out what games you're going to start with in the new season. In the first half of the year, in addition to the league, the J League also has a very important cup competition, which is the Japan League Cup. And this cup is the stage for you to show your strength. βγ